[TonyBelmont]

This forum should be a place for both beginner's and pro's alike. ALL NEW MEMBERS PLEASE READ.

Here's the new rules in addition to the BASIC FORUM RULES...

1. Infractions will be given by the mods and admin for people who violate the basic forum rules... Three infractions = Posting privileges will be taken away or you will be evaluated for banning! Three strikes you're out... These will be for things that go above and beyond stupidity, like attacking a member, racial comments, creating threads that serve no positive purpose, discussing cracked software, asking if your MBox pre's are just as good as a 1073, etc.

2. If you attack a member for his work on a major label project you are banned. Immediate BAN! If you don't like the way something was mastered, or mixed, keep it to your self. This is nobody's personal soapbox. This is why some of the BIG producers don't post here much, because some idiot would always start a thread about so & so's new album and talk shit about it. If you were Pharell, would you want to help the same people that were putting you down?

3. If everyone posts how much they hate your stupid comments after you say something all the time.... You may be BANNED! It's happened before, and will happen to others who say and do stupid shit. You would have to be a real jerk for this to happen. We're not here to cater to people who behave badly.

It only takes one or two fools to screw up a good thing. The same people who were here in the beginning are still here. Because the forum got more popular, it's not only the well-experienced guys posting, but also newbies who were told about us in other forums.. There's no reason why we can't have both experienced pro's and beginner's discussing the same topics. I welcome newbies to the forum, just show others respect and before posting a new thread, try the search function.

New posters = use common sense. If you've never recorded anything before, then TRY THE SEARCH FIRST. I appreciate everyone who participates in the forum, and we will not turn anyone away. Just be cool to each other, do a search if it's about the basics and respect one another.

This is aimed to keep the new members from changing the dynamic of the forum. This place will continue to be a place where everyone is welcomed to participate. We just need to treat others with respect, in cases where they may not know the rules or have read the stickies, don't attack the poster, just point them to the stickies.

Everyone's tired of the Album reviews, 'check out my beats' threads, 'cop' this magazine to read about the latest 'beef' threads, 'how much is producer X slangin' his beats for' threads, etc. Let's keep this stuff to a minimum.

IF ANYONE SEES ANY THREADS WHICH DON'T BELONG HERE, CLICK THE REPORT POST BUTTON AND THEY WILL BE EVALUATED AND DELETED OR LOCKED. I CAN"T READ EVERY THREAD OR EVERY POST, SO I NEED EVERYONE'S HELP WITH THIS!

***Also, if you start a thread complaining about a thread you started being closed or moved, you will loose posting privledges for a "to be determined" amount of time! Every thread that gets locked or moved doesn't need to be discussed. IT WAS DONE FOR A REASON! This eats up too much time and effort to explain things, not only to the thread starter, but to the entire forum. This is what PM's are for.